Crude-oil burner.



Nb. 790,657. PATENTED MAY 23, 1905.

J. W. PIPPIN. CRUDE OIL BURNER.

APPLIGATIONIILEI) JUNE 8.1903. RENEWED APR. 4. 1906-.

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UNITED STATES Patented May 23, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN WILLIAM PIPPIN, OF BROWNVVOOD, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO JOHN KENEDY, OF BROWNWOOD, TEXAS.

CRUDE-OIL BURNER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 790,657, dated May 23, 1905.

Application filed June 8,1903. Renewed April 4, 1905. Serial No. 253,755.

1'0 a, whom it may concern:

Be it known that I J ornv WILLIAM PIPPIN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brownwood, in the county oi Brown. in the State of Texas, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Crude-Oil Burners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in crudeoil burners, having for an object, among oth 'ers, to provide a novel construction which may be utilized in kitchen-stoves or in fireplaces, furnaces, or other locations and by the use of which smoke, soot, and the like may in a large measure be avoided and the oil and water vapor will be supplied under proper control; and the invention consists in certain novel constructions and combinations of parts,

as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a burner embodying my invention and applied to a stove, parts of the stove being broken awayand others shown in section.

Fig. 2 is a detail longitudinal section of theoil and steam nozzle, and Fig. 3 is a detail view of the valve connections and operatinglever.

In operating my invention 1 provide for combining the discharged oil and steam, and I employ a tank having a lower compartment A for the oil and an upper compartment B for the water, such compartments A and B being separated by a cross-plate or partition 1, provided at its middle with a gland or stufling-box 2, through which operates a rod 3, depending from a float 4:, operating in the upper compartment B, the rod 3 having a needle-point in its lower end to close the oil-discharge pipe A when the float 4: descends by the fall of water in the compartment B, so the discharge of oil may be cut off when the water has discharged from its compartment. I provide the compartments A and B with gages A and B so the height of their contents can be seen at a glance, and with funnels A and B by which to readily fill the said compartments, and these funnels may be supplied with gauze or other strainers, as shown, to prevent sticks or other trash from passing into the oil and water compartments. The tank may be elevated, as shown in Fig. 1, or where it is desired to arrange the tanks outside of the room they may be suitably elevated, or compressed air or other forcing means may be employed to force the oil and water to the burner and, if desired, to force the oil and water from the same tank to several burners, wherever the latter may be located.

The burner includes a burner-pan (J, which is shown in Fig. 1 as suitably supported in the fire-box D of the stove D and has an edge rim O. The boiler or Water-vaporizer E is arranged above the burner-pan C so it will be heated by the flames in said pan in the operation of the device, as presently described. Such boiler or vaporizer E is in the form of a cylinder suitably supported, and it may be closed at its ends by suitable caps e and c, as shown in Fig. 1. The water-supply pipe B leads from the water-compartment B and discharges at b to the boiler E near one end of the latter, passing in its course to its connection with the boiler across the burnerpan C so it will be heated in its passage. This pipe is provided with a valve 13*. The oil-pipe A extends from the compartment A and connects with its nozzle F, being provided at a point opposite the valve B in the pipe B with I a valve A, the stems oisaid valves B and A* being provided, respectively, with crank-arms B and A connected by a link H, which may be adjustably connected bythe series of holes a with the arm A, a handle or throttle lever A being provided for operating the valve A and through the connections described the valve B" at the same time with the valve A", as may be desired in the operation of the invention. The steam generated in the boiler E is .taken from the upper part thereof at g, by a pipe G, which extends thence and connects with a coupling H between the nozzles F for the oil and l for the steam, said nozzles F and I being constructed at their points f and i to operate by the injector principle to discharge the oil and to vaporize it at the same time by the heat of thesteam acting on the contracted point f of the nozzle F, producing a composite steam and oil vaporizing-burner by Which the vapor in a finely-divided state will be discharged onto a spreader J in the pan, and the flames Will be caused to fill the pan and produce an intense heat acting upon the boiler E and upon any other object which it may be desired to heat.

A drain-pipe K has one end elevated at K Within the burner-pan C, and its other end may extend from the broken-off point at K out of the room and discharge into a reservoir or other suitable receptacle, so that in case the oil should in any instance rise too high in the burner-pan it will be discharged out of the room and Will be preserved so it may be used whenever desired.

A bloW-off pipe L leads from the boiler E has a valve L and a coupling L which may be adjusted whenever desired to permit the blowing off of the contents of the boiler or the cleaning out of the pipe L whenever desired.

It Will be noticed that in the operation of the invention, the oil being supplied through the nozzle F and the steam through the nozzle I, encircling the nozzle F, and the supplypipes for the oil and Water'having their valves connected for joint operation, the supply of oil and steam may be regulated to secure the desired action of burner. It will also be noticed the link H may be disconnected from the crank-arm A and the valve in the oil-pipe be opened to supply oil to the burner-pan for use in starting the burner before the supply of steam has been generated, and water may be supplied from time to time as desired.

1 connect the several parts by union-couplings, making it a simple matter to uncouple any or all of the parts and remove them for repairing or when otherwise desired.

The discharge of steam from the nozzle I will suck the oil through the nozzle F, and as the oil is discharged at the contracted point of the nozzle F it will be atomized and discharged With force on the spreader J, scattering the fire over the entire. interior of the stove.

The valves for the oil and water pipes and their connections Will be so arranged that when the oil-valve is opened the Water-valve will also be opened to admit just enough water to make sufficient steam to completely atomize the oil, so that whether the oil-valve be wide open or nearly shut the relative supply of oil and water will be maintained and the li re will always be regulated to support a perfect combustion, avoiding soot, odor, and the like.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with the bu rner-pan and the boiler extending thereover of the watersupply pipe leading to the boiler, the blowoff pipe leading from the boiler, the overflowpipe having one end at an elevated point within tlie burner-pan and extending thence to a suitable discharge-point, the steam-nozzle, a connection between the steam-nozzle and the boiler, the oil-nozzle extending within the steam-nozzle, the oil-supply pipe leading to said oil-nozzle, valves controlling the oil and water supply pipes and means whereby said valves may be operated jointly substantially as set forth.

2. The combination in a burner with the steam and oil discharging devices of a tank having upper and lower compartments, an oilsupply pipe leading from the lower compartment, a water-supply pipe leading from the upper compartment, a float in the upper compartment, and a valve operated by such float for controlling connection of the oil-supply pipe with its compartment, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination of the burnerpan, the boiler extending thereover, the blow-ofl' pipe leading from the boiler, the overflow-pipe having one end elevated within the burnerpan and extending thence to a suitable discharge-point, the water-supply pipe leading to the boiler, a steam-nozzle, and connection between the steam-nozzle and the boiler, the oil-nozzle within the steam-nozzle and the oilsupply pipe substantially as set forth.

JOHN \VILLIAM PIPPIN.

Witnesses:

I. J. RICE, R. P. CoNNnR. 

